Jurgen Wagner

Jurgen Wagner (9 September 1901-27 June 1947) was a Waffen-SS Brigadefuhrer during World War II. Wagner commanded the SS Division Nederland during the war, and he was executed after the war.

Biography
Jurgen Wagner was born in Strassburg, Elsass-Lothringen, German Empire on 9 September 1901. He served in the Reichswehr at the time of the November Revolution, taking part in the suppression of a socialist rebellion in the Ruhr. He joined the SS and Nazi Party in 1931, and he served in the Waffen-SS during World War II, fighting in the Balkans in 1941 and in the Soviet Union. He became the commander of the SS Division Nederland in 1943, and he later commanded the 4th SS Polizei Division, later commanding a kampfgruppe against the Tartu Offensive of the 3rd Baltic Front. He was captured by the US Army at Tangermunde in Saxony-Anhalt in 1945, and he was tried for war crimes committed in Yugoslavia in 1947. His orders for the mass executions of civilians in 1941 led to the Yugoslav government having him executed by firing squad.